Through years of development, the leather industry of China has initially formed district economic industry groups, such as the leather and leather garments of Haining in Zhejiang, the sheepskin garments of Xinji in Hebei, the leather goods of Shiling Town of Huadu District in Guangzhou, Quanzhou in Fujian and Baigou in Hebei, the raw material processing of fur and characteristic economic zones of Tongxiang of Zhejiang, Suning of Hebei, Sangpo of Henan, as well as the shoe-making industry of Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Wuhou of Chengdu in Sichuan, Bishan in Chongqing and Guangdong.

The leading enterprises in the leather industry of China is forming and occupying certain market share. Famous enterprises, such as Belle International Holdings Ltd. and Aokang Group Co., Ltd., possess competitive advantages in terms of women’s shoes and men’s shoes respectively and begin to expand to the neighboring fields. According to the relevant data revealed by the State Statistic Bureau, from January to November in 2007, large scale enterprises in the leather industry realized a total industrial output value of RMB 412.812 billion Yuan, a sales income of RMB 394.581 billion Yuan and a profit of RMB 17.667 billion Yuan. Besides, 6,377 engaging units of large-scale enterprises with 2.3373 million employees existed. And the concentration ratio of enterprise sales income and regional sales income of large-scale enterprises reached 9.25% and 94.79% respectively.

The large scale enterprises of leather tanning process industry, in that year, realized a total industrial output value of RMB 82.135 billion Yuan, a sales income of RMB 76.395 billion Yuan, and a profit of RMB 4.121 billion Yuan, up by 20.77%, 17.7% and 37.69% respectively over the same period of the last year, with 784 engaging large scale enterprises with 153.8 thousand employees existing; the large scale enterprises of leather goods manufacture industry realized a total industrial output value of RMB 330.677 billion Yuan, a sales income of RMB 318.186 billion Yuan, and a profit of RMB 13.546 billion Yuan, up by 26.88%, 28.05% and 31.12% respectively over the same period of the previous year, with 5,593 engaging large scale enterprises with 2,183.6 thousand employees existing.

The export of leather goods of China targets mainly the middle and low grade products and the products with lower added value. In addition, China’s 1.3 billion populations and its extensive consumption market also decide that the leather products are mainly to meet the domestic demands. According to the statistic data revealed by the State Customs, the export of China's leather products has maintained a stable growing tendency in recent years but shown a decline tendency of growth rate of export value in recent two years. In 2007, China has exported leather products of 15.399 billion US dollars in total, up by 8.73 percent point over the last year, 1.44 times of the export value in 2003. And the annual growth rate of export value of leather products in China from 2003 to 2007 was 9.62%.

China has become the process and trade center of global leather industry. From 2003 to 2007, the import of the leather products in China showed a continuously stable growth tendency. In 2007, the imported leather products in China were 6.471 billion US dollars, which was up by 9.2 percent point over the last year and was 1.66 times of the total import value of leather products in 2003. And the annual growth rate from 2003 to 2007 reached 13.71%.

The major origin places of imported leather products of China are America, Italy, Brazil, China, Korea and etc., among which, in 2007, there were leather products of 1.16 billion US dollars imported from America, ranking top in the whole country and accounting for 17.93% of the total import value of leather products in that year; 743 million US dollars from Italy, accounting for 11.48% in the total import value of leather products in the whole country; 624 million US dollars from Brazil, accounting for 9.64% in the total import value of leather products in the whole country. And the leather products imported from the above three countries were 2.527 billion US dollars in total, occupying 39.05% of that of total import value of leather products. Accordingly, America, Italy and Brazil are the major origin places of imported leather products of China.

In terms of the imported subdivided leather products, various leathers applied as raw material are the most major subdivided leather products imported into China, whose import value in 2007 reached 5.962 billion US dollars, occupying 92.14% of the total import value. The imported leather products in 2007 were 508 million US dollars, occupying 7.86% of the total import value.

China is a big country of leather products manufacture. With a large demand for the raw material, especially for the high-grade leather of raw material, the majority material depends on import. The livestock husbandry of China is mostly in the condition of naturally stocking and has a long growth period. Compared with the European raw material of leather, China’s raw material is worse in leather material, severe in disability, and rough in grain tightness; therefore, the produced leather products are mostly in middle and low grade. As a result, imported leather products possess an important position in the domestic market for high-grade products.

With the constant expansion of the demanding amount of the leather products both at home and abroad and the gradually transferring of the foreign advanced industry to China, the production technology and quality of the domestic leather products are continuous improved, and the level of the per capita income for residents is increased constantly, and thus the leather industry in China will step into a stable development period, and the market volume will also keep a steady growth. It is predicted that, by 2010, the apparent expenditure of leather products in China will reach about RMB 500 to 530 billion Yuan.

CHAPTER 1 DEFINITION OF THE PRODUCTS

1.1 Definition of the products 1.2 Classification of the products 1.3 The relevant products

CHAPTER 2 THE SUMMARY OF THE LEATHER PRODUCTS MARKET IN CHINA

2.1 China’s economy: basic facts2.2 Introduction to the current domestic macroeconomic environment2.3 The development situation of domestic leather industry in 2007 2.4 The prediction of the domestic leather market potential in the future

CHAPTER 5 ANALYSIS ON THE CHANGE IN IMPORT OF SUBDIVIDED LEATHER PRODUCTS

5.1 Leather (HS Code:4101-4115) 5.1.1 Analysis on the change in leather import in recent years 5.1.2 Main origin of places of leather imported into China 5.1.3 Main domestic flow of leather imported into China 5.2 Leather products (HS Code: 4201-4205) 5.2.1 Analysis on the change in import of leather products in recent years 5.2.2 Main origin places of leather products imported into China 5.2.3 Main domestic flow of leather products imported into China

12.1 The cunsumer characteristecs of domestic leather products 12.2 The anaylsis on the marcket access opportunity 12.3 The anaylsis on non-tariff barrier of marcket access 12.4 Main conclusions and suggestions

Table 1 The Categories Of The Leather Products Table 2 The Categories Of The Relevant Products Table 3 The Macro-Economy Indexes Of China In 2007 Table 4 Various Economic Indexes Of Large-Scale Enterprises In Leather Industry Table 5 The Total Importing Amount And The Increase Rate Of Leather Products From 2003 To 2007 (Unit: US Dollar) Table 6 The Amount And The Increase Rate Of Imported Leather In 2003-2007 (Unit: US Dollar) Table 7 The Top Ten Places Of Origin In Amount And The Increase Of The China Imported Leather Over The Past Years (Unit: US Dollar) Table 8 The Imported Amount And Increase Rate Of The Top Ten Regions Of The China Imported Leather Amount Over The Past Years In 2007 (Unit: US Dollar) Table 9 The Import Value And The Growth Rate Of Leather Products From 2003 To 2007(Unit: US Dollar) Table 10 Top Ten Value Places Of Origin And Annual Increase Of China Imported Leather Products In 2007(Unit: US Dollar)Table 11 The Annual Import Value And The Growth Rate Of The Top Ten Domestic Areas In 2007 Of Importing Value For Leather Products In The Past Years (Unit: US Dollar) Table 12 The Export Quantity And The Growth Rate Of Leather Products From 2003 To 2007 (Unit: Kg) Table 13 The Export Value Of Subdivided Leather Products Table 14 Ranking Of Main Destinations For Export Value Of China Leather Products In 2007 Table 15 Top Ten Destinations In 2007 For Export Value Of China Leather Products And The Annual Increasing In The Past Years (Unit: US Dollar) Table 16 Ranking Of Main Places Of Origin For Export Value Of China’s Leather Products In 2007 Table 17 Top Ten Main Places Of Origin In 2007 For Export Value Of China’s Leather Products And The Annual Growth Rate In The Past Years (Unit: US Dollar) Table 18 Leather Products Carried Out The Value-Added Tax Rate Of 13%Table 19 2008 Catalogue Of Prohibited Commodities In Processing Trade Of Leather Industry Table 20The Hides Category Products’ Sampling StandardTable 21 The Limited Quantity Of Harmful Materials In Leather And Fur Table 22 Product ClassificationTable 23 Kinds Prohibited Aromatic Amine Names Table 24 Main Supervision Institutions Of Import Leather ProductsTable 25 The Economical Operation Condition Of The Top Ten Regions’ Large-Scale Enterprises In Leather Industry From January To November In 2007 (Unit: 1000 Yuan) Table 26 List Of Large Scale Enterprises Of Leather Industry In All Areas In China During January To November In 2007

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Figure 1 The Amount And The Increase Rate Change Of The Leather Products Imported Into China From 2003 To 2007 (Unit: US Dollar) Figure 2 The Importing Proportion Occupied By The Each Segmentation Leather Products In 2007(Unit: US Dollar) Figure 3 The Amount And The Increase Rate Change Of The Imported Leather In 2003-2007 (Unit: US Dollar) Figure 4 The Proportion Occupied By The Each Segmentation Leather In The Total Imported Products In 2007(Unit: US Dollar) Figure 5 The Top Ten Places Of Origin In Amount Of The China Imported Leather In 2007 Figure 6 The Change Trend Of The Places Of Origin In Amount Of The China Imported Leather Over The Past Years (Unit: %)Figure 7 The Top Ten Regions In Amount Of The China Imported Leather In 2007 Figure 8 The Change Trend Of The Imported Amount In Main Regions Of The China Imported Leather Over The Past Years (Unit: %) Figure 9 Change In The Import Value And The Growth Rate Of Leather Products From 2003 To 2007 (Unit: US Dollar)Figure 10 Import Proportion For Subdivided Varieties Of The Imported Leather Products In 2007 (Unit: US Dollars) Figure 11 Top Ten Places Of Origin For The Value Of China’s Imported Leather Products Figure 12 Annual Change Trends For The Main Value Places Of Origin For China’s Imported Leather Products In The Past Years (Unit: %) Figure 13 Top Ten Main Domestic Areas For Import Value Of Leather Products In 2007 Figure 14 Change Trend For Annual Import Value In Main Areas For Domestic Importing Leather Products In The Past Year (Unit: %) Figure 15 Change In The Export Value And The Growth Rate For China Leather Products From 2003 To 2007(Unit: US Dollar) Figure 16 Export Proportion Of Every Subdivided Leather Products In 2007 (Unit: US Dollar) Figure 17 Top 10 Destinations For Export Value Of China Leather Products In 2007 Figure 18 Main Places Of Origin For Export Value Of China’s Leather Products In 2007(Unit: US Dollar) Figure 19 The Proportion Of The Ten Major Enterprises’ Sales Over The Large-Scale Enterprises’ Total Sales In The Whole Industry Figure 20 The Proportion Of The Top Ten Regions’ Proceeds Of Sale Over The Total Sale Of The Large-Scale Enterprises In The Whole Country Figure 21 National Distribution Map Of Large Enterprises